#784 - Experiments and Anomalies (asking for monthly votes and recommendation tickets)

"Isn't this a bit risky? Aren't you afraid Lockhart's recklessness will hurt the young wizards?" Anduin paced to the metal stand where Fawkes was resting, teasing the little phoenix as he asked.

"Let them suffer a little, but we still need to keep a close eye on him just in case." Dumbledore said, giving Anduin a pointed look. "I know you've installed a lot of peeping devices around the school, so I'll have to trouble you with this important task."

Why is everything being dumped on me? Is he really using me as free labor? And why is this old man slandering me? Anduin couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"I'm not peeping, you know there's a house-elf sneaking into the school and causing trouble lately, right? If you don't keep an eye on it, it could cause big problems."

"Oh?" Dumbledore raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Any gains?"

"That guy's target should be Harry, but it's not clear what he wants to do yet. He's very alert, and will immediately apparate away if he notices anything wrong."

Anduin recalled what Hogg had reported to him. That house-elf had appeared twice this month, each time heading straight for Harry.

However, Hogg would rush over immediately after discovering this situation, but that house-elf was very agile and escaped very quickly, which infuriated Hogg.

Now Hogg seemed to be competing with this house-elf. He confidently assured Anduin that he would catch that guy no matter what.

"It seems the situation hasn't completely calmed down yet, we need to be more careful." Hearing this news, Dumbledore first thought of Voldemort, he was very sure that the Dark Lord would not die so easily.

"That's what I think too." Anduin nodded, and then brought up the main topic, "The research on the Deathly Hallows has made progress, and I'm here to borrow the Elder Wand."

"Borrow it?" Dumbledore asked with some vigilance, "Don't you usually study the Hallows here?"

"It's not impossible to study it directly here, but the subsequent experiments may involve some risks. I'm afraid I'll break your place, and some of the testing methods may not be to your liking." Anduin chose his words carefully.

What he was about to do next was all human experimentation. Anduin wasn't sure about Dumbledore's attitude towards this kind of thing, so it was best not to let him come into contact with it as much as possible.

"Risks? Methods?" Dumbledore glanced at Anduin thoughtfully, seemingly thinking of something, but he didn't say it directly.

"Okay." After thinking for a moment, Dumbledore nodded, "I can lend you the Elder Wand, but only from late at night until dawn."

Then Dumbledore looked at Anduin meaningfully, "I don't want to delve too deeply into your so-called research methods, but some things still need to be moderate, especially don't cross the line."

"I understand what you mean."

Hearing Dumbledore's agreement, Anduin was relieved. He originally thought it would take some effort to convince him.

And from Dumbledore's reaction, he should have realized something, but he was very considerate and didn't point it out.

Thinking of this, Anduin felt embarrassed to just borrow the wand from him, so he took out a spare wand, "Choose a few, I don't want you to not have a wand when you need it."

Looking at the bundle of dozens of wands in Anduin's hand, Dumbledore chuckled. How many people did this guy kill? He has so many wands that he can use them as firewood.

But Dumbledore politely refused, "I still have spares here, you should keep these for yourself. I am willing to help you, mainly because I want to see the real Deathly Hallows."

After so many years of contact, he and the young man in front of him had established enough trust. A person who was not tempted by the Philosopher's Stone would probably not covet an Elder Wand.

"Thank you." Anduin thanked him sincerely, and then curiously glanced at the phoenix beside him, "By the way, I remember Fawkes is a male bird, right? Are you interested in letting him visit me? My Irene is still single."

"Chirp!" Fawkes seemed to understand Anduin's words, and immediately chirped warily.

"He seems not very satisfied with Irene's current figure..." Dumbledore stroked his beard a little awkwardly, "You're really something, I've never seen anyone raise a phoenix like a chicken."

Dumbledore was no stranger to the magical creatures in Anduin's house, and he and Fawkes had also visited his ranch.

But when he saw the phoenix as fat as a ball, he still couldn't understand how Anduin did it.

"Tch, you still have the nerve to be picky..." Anduin glared at Fawkes, "Serves you right for being single all your life, you'll regret it when Irene gets married in the future."

"Chirp!" Fawkes rolled his eyes with disgust, as if to say, can Irene's figure find a partner?

After chatting with Dumbledore for a while, Anduin happily returned to the ranch with the Elder Wand.

Sure enough, the effect of using Galleons to pave the way was very obvious. In just one month, David and Lister in the United States had captured a dozen dark wizards for him. After Anduin's confirmation, these people were all wanted criminals explicitly by the American authorities, mainly humans and vampires.

With enough experimental material, Anduin could finally try to study the Deathly Hallows.

Therefore, as soon as he got the Elder Wand, he couldn't wait to get into the laboratory. At this time, there were already three nutrient tanks containing humans placed inside, and Shaltia was also waiting aside wearing a white doctor's coat.

"It seems you borrowed the Elder Wand, my lord." Seeing the smile on Anduin's face, Shaltia knew that he must have gotten what he wanted.

"Yeah, Dumbledore is easier to talk to than I thought." Anduin nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at Shaltia, "But I can't borrow it for long every day, let's start the test quickly."

"Yes!"

Shaltia responded, then drew her wand and cast a spell on a human in the experimental tank.

"Imperio!"

A wizard was hit by the green light of the Imperius Curse, instantly restoring the person who was struggling in the experimental tank to calmness, which also meant that his consciousness had been completely controlled by Shaltia.

After controlling the wizard, Shaltia drove him out of the experimental tank and stood in the circular open space in the center of the laboratory.

Around this open space, there are several instruments that are difficult to distinguish, and complex patterns are engraved on the circular platform under the feet. Obviously, this is a venue specially arranged by Anduin for the Deathly Hallows experiment.

Then Anduin took out the other three Hallows, let him put on the Invisibility Cloak, and placed the Resurrection Stone at the position of the navel, and the Elder Wand stood at the chest, and used magic to absorb the two Hallows together with his body.

"Note, next I will draw a magic array on him, don't let him mobilize magic power at will before it is completed."

After giving an order, Anduin began to 'work' on the wizard according to the previously restored blueprint. He fixed the three Hallows on his body in advance in order to draw runes with these Hallows as target points.

After a while, when Anduin completed the complex pattern, he immediately ordered, "Okay, now you control him to use magic power, use the Resurrection Stone at the navel as the starting point, and then go up along the runes I drew, passing the Elder Wand."

"After reaching the tip of the wand, divert the magic power, pay attention to the output must be average, and must pass the two nodes that I marked on the other party's shoulders."

"It's much simpler after completing this step, then you only need to let the magic power walk along my rune."

Finally, Anduin instructed, "This is the first test after all, you must be careful when operating, you can guide him to guide the magic power slowly, and you don't need to mobilize too much, I need to check whether the restored rune array is complete first."

"Understood, leave it to me." Shaltia nodded confidently. She didn't mix for nothing for so many years, and this requirement is naturally nothing.

Then she began to guide the magic power on the wizard according to the requirements, and Anduin was operating the instruments around the circular open space while observing the changes on the wizard.

As the magic power began to flow, an abnormality suddenly appeared on the wizard!

As the starting point of this rune array, the Resurrection Stone on the abdomen did not show the illusion of the dead as usual after receiving the magic power, but the surface flickered with faint starlight.

At the same time, as the magic power gradually flowed upward and passed through the Elder Wand, the body of the wizard in front of him was slowly fading away.

This is not a fade in terms of color, but a bit like invisibility, the body gradually becomes nothingness.

However, this nothingness did not continue to increase with the flow of magic power, but suddenly froze after the magic power passed through the two nodes belonging to the Invisibility Cloak.

This makes the wizard look more like a ghost than a human at this time.

However, just as Anduin was curious about the strange phenomenon that happened to the wizard, Shaltia suddenly shouted loudly, "Not good, the magic power on him is out of control!"

Following Shaltia's reminder, the wizard's whole body trembled, and at the same time, the translucent body began to switch between reality and illusion, which made the other party become clearer for a while and more blurred for a while.

"Contract the magic power! If it fails, take back your consciousness and give up control!"

Anduin calmed down and shouted softly, then patted the operating table next to him, and then two metal tentacles like chains suddenly stretched out from the ground, rolling towards the wizard from bottom to top.

These are all magic ropes enchanted with energy-absorbing spells, which can quickly drain the magic power from the wizard, and are specially designed to prevent situations similar to magic riots.

But unexpectedly, when those steel cables wrapped around him, they failed to restrain the wizard.

No, it should be said that these steel cables can't even touch the wizard, but at the same time, they can't penetrate directly like touching a ghost.

At this time, the other party seemed to be in a strange intermediate state. Although the wizard's body could be wrapped by the steel cable, the steel cable could not really touch the other party, and at the same time could not exert its effect to draw magic power from the other party's body.

It was as if there was suddenly a transparent shell on the other party, and it was still a very slippery shell that could deflect and separate all the entities that touched it.

According to Anduin's perception, those steel cables did not have the tactile sensation of touching a real object. They also slid constantly with the other party's body due to the wizard's trembling.

"That's weird..." Anduin also saw this phenomenon for the first time, which was neither completely nothingness nor like an entity.

As the magic power fluctuations on the target became larger and larger, he also knew that now was not the time to think about these things. Obviously, Shaltia had failed to control the other party.

If he didn't find a way to solve this mutation, the other party might explode directly due to the sudden change in magic power in his body.

Although such an explosion would not pose much of a threat to him and Shaltia, the three Hallows would be in trouble. If they were destroyed in this accident, Anduin would not be able to explain to Dumbledore.

Thinking of this, he quickly shot a lightning spell, trying to stop the other party.

In fact, Anduin was not sure whether using magic spells would be effective. If it was blocked like a steel cable, it would be really troublesome.

But the result was exceptionally smooth, and the current drilled into the wizard's body without hindrance, destroying the internal structure of the body in an instant.

"Zzla!"

After a burst of electric light, the wizard in the circular arena fell down as a half-scorched corpse, and Anduin quickly stepped forward and took off the three Hallows from his body.

After some inspection, Anduin breathed a sigh of relief. The Deathly Hallows were not damaged, but it was a pity that the wizard was already dead beyond death.

"My lord, how is it?" Shaltia was also startled by the abnormality just now, and quickly rushed to Anduin and asked.

"It's okay, at least the Deathly Hallows are okay..." Anduin shook his head, then recalled the scene just now.

In that semi-illusory state, the steel cable in the entity could not touch the other party, but the magic spell would not be blocked.

No!

After careful recall, Anduin found that when he cast a spell, the feedback when his desolate thunder hit the other party was a little different from hitting an ordinary wizard.

He could perceive that when his desolate thunder entered the other party's body, it became faster, fiercer, more transparent, and even more flexible. It was neither like hitting an entity life nor like hitting an empty place.

That is to say, in that state, the magical damage received would be greatly strengthened, producing a multiplier effect.

"In this way, applying that state to yourself, besides being able to ignore entities, isn't it the same as suicide?" Anduin frowned in confusion, he didn't understand how anyone would use this kind of magic on himself.

But then Anduin shook his head again, "No, the mystery of the Deathly Hallows is definitely not that simple, it's better to make another judgment after the runes are completely restored."

Thinking of this, Anduin began to think about the reason for the failure of the experiment.